10/24 PBE Update: Ranked Summoner Icons, Honor Ward Skins & More

[Recent News: Quick Gameplay Thoughts: October 24th / NA League Partnership Program Roster / Karma Gameplay Change Preview]
[WIP!] [STATUS: PBE is currently online. Working!]

The PBE has been updated! As we start the 8.22 PBE cycle, today's patch includes ranked reward summoner icons, Honor reward ward skins, tentative balance changes, and more!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Table of Contents

• New Summoner Icons
• New Ward Skins
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

New Summoner Icons

New ranked reward summoner icons have been added this cycle, one for each rank and queue:

2018 Solo Queue Bronze Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Bronze Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Bronze Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Silver Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Silver Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Silver Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Gold Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Gold Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Gold Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Platinum Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Platinum Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Platinum Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Diamond Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Diamond Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Diamond Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Master Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Master Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Master Icon

  

2018 Solo Queue Challenger Icon, 2018 Flex Queue Challenger Icon, 2018 3v3 Queue Challenger Icon

  

New Ward Skins

Three new Honor reward ward skins are now on the PBE:

2018 Honor 3 Ward, 2018 Honor 4 Ward, 2018 Honor 5 Ward

Miscellaneous 

• Rune stats are working on the PBE today!

• Program Nami chroma spotlight:

Balance Changes

* NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Pyke
[Pyke has other changes in testing on the PBE!]

• Ghostwater Dive (W) 
• • Mana cost lowered from 75 to 50
  • Movement speed changed from [60/65/70/75/80% (+4% per 100 bAD)] to [30% (+2% per point of Lethality)]
  • • (max 178% Movespeed)

• Phantom Undertow (E)
• • stun duration changed from [1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5] to [1.1 + .1 per 10 Lethality]
  • • (max 1.84 seconds)

Runes

Dark Harvest (Domination Keystone)
[Context]

• [New Effect]

"Damaging a Champion below 50% health deals adaptive damage and harvests their soul, permanently increasing Dark Harvest's damage by 4 (+3% bonus AD) (+2% AP). 

Dark Harvest damage: 30-180 (based on level (+4 damage per soul) (+25% bonus AD)(+15% AP) 

Cooldown: 40s (reset on takedown)"

Shield Bash (R2)

• Now notes "Whenever you gain a new shield"

Fleet Footwork (Precision Keystone)

[Context]

• AP lowered from .5 to .3

Context & Notes

WIP!

1) Riot Rovient provided a changelist for Dark Harvest coming to the PBE today:

"A new version of Dark Harvest hits PBE tomorrow. Read the image for a more complete picture, but base damage is 30-180 (based on level) (+4 x Souls) (+25% Bonus AD) (+15% AP). This damage is Adaptive."

He also noted changes for Fleet Footwork:

"hmm. Nope! I'm pushing a nerf to AP Fleet Footowork to PBE today. The previous version granted you healing equal to 50% AP, which was designed to compensate mages for having to take precision. Now that's no longer the case, they only get a 30% ratio."

2) Here's Riot NeuroCat with a thread on Karma changes coming to the PBE in a later cycle - Karma Gameplay Change Preview:

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2018/10/1024-pbe-update-ranked-summoner-icons.html